§ 695.010.All Property Subject to Enforcement; Property Attached But Transferred Before Entry of Judgment

Section 695.010 states the baseline principle for California judgment enforcement: everything a judgment debtor owns can be reached to pay a money judgment, unless some other statute carves out an exception. That default is broad on purpose -- the exceptions live elsewhere, in provisions like § 695.030's rule on nonassignable property, § 695.040's bar on levying against exempt property, and the separate exemption statutes that let a debtor keep specific assets out of a creditor's reach.

Subdivision (b) covers a narrower situation: property the plaintiff attached earlier in the same lawsuit, under Title 6.5's attachment procedure, that the debtor then transferred before the court entered the money judgment. Ordinarily a transfer before judgment might seem to put property out of reach. Section 695.010(b) says otherwise -- as long as the attachment lien is still in effect, that transferred property remains subject to enforcing the eventual judgment.

That rule protects the value of an attachment obtained mid-case. A plaintiff who secured a right to attach order and levied on property earlier in the litigation would gain little if the debtor could sell or give away the attached property and walk away once judgment was entered. Section 695.010(b) closes that gap by tying enforceability to the attachment lien's own duration, not to who happens to hold title on the day judgment is entered.